[OSGeo-Boston] olpcMAP SPRINT - Dec 27-31 in Boston!
Holt
holt at laptop.org
Fri Oct 29 21:09:24 EDT 2010
Talented social cartographers & implementers from the global community
of One Laptop per Child (http://blog.laptop.org) and
http://SugarLabs.org will fly to Boston Dec 27-31 -- to physically map
our geo-social fabric of small/medium/large deployments worldwide. In
completely new and different ways -- on and around CMU/Nick Doiron's
rapidly evolving adoption/volunteering map:
http://olpcMAP.net
Just like a Book Sprint (writing an entire book within a week, like
http://laptop.org/manual) we will beautify, rigorize and publish this
community product within 5 business days.
We're looking for the very best talent globally to join us, to lay
critical seeds Connecting-The-Dots of OLPC/Sugar/ICT4Education around
learning/deployment/content knowledge. Globally! Starting with one
single student's social map -- that has already powerfully captured the
popular imagination OLPC sites around the world, since its alpha-launch
in San Francisco last week.
SAVE THE DATE, and RSVP early to confirm your (a) any dedicated
contribution and (b) spot! We have a long way to go and Need Your Help:
_cartographic tools, deployment experts, artistic curators
all...coalescing into our geosocial FABRICation_. EG. Who will package
this for XO laptops in offline countries
(http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Ndoiron/OfflineMap) and iPhone App both??
The venue for making this happen will likely be OLPC's headquarters, in
Cambridge, Massachusetts or a nearby university -- both very
conveniently transit-accessible to Boston's airport "BOS". Details to
follow later in November, off of this page:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OlpcMAP
Thank you to the organizing volunteers (email beautify at olpcMAP.net)
already INvesting so much of their personal/family resources, flying in
during 2010's Season of Giving. Just 2 months away now, to celebrate a
Cause They Believe In! That cause being to grow our community of
face2face doers building 21st century educational opportunities for the
world's poorest children, with new volunteer/internship opportunities
that None Of Us Have Yet Imagined. We are thrilled to already have in
attendance these powerhouse contributors:
Walter Bender (Sugar Labs Executive Director, partial attendance)
David Farning (ActivityCentral.org, Executive Director, Wisconsin)
Caroline Meeks (SolutionGrove.com, Executive Director, partial
attendance)
Nick Doiron (Carnegie Mellon University)
Marina Zdobnova (Russia, http://SaigonOLPC.wordpress.com)
Kurt Maier (OLPC Support Gang founding member, Indiana)
Claudia Urrea (OLPC learning coordinator for Latin America, partial
attendance)
SJ Klein (OLPC Director of Outreach, partial attendance)
Reuben Caron (OLPC global deployment support, partial attendance)
Adam Holt (OLPC Community Support Manager)
(Special Chicago guest/s from http://IITempoweringHaiti.org )
_Please spread the word._ I with match up rich volunteers with poor,
just as I did for http://olpcSF.org/summit last week, to make sure
housing and a few _select airfares are covered, when truly exceptional
talent is demonstrated_. Thanks & see you there!!
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